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Gaza's largest hospital "not functioning", amid Israeli assault, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak brings back former leader David Cameron as foreign minister, and Zelenskiy tells Ukrainians to prepare for a Russian winter onslaught.

 

Plus, worker injuries at SpaceX soar in Elon Musk’s rush to Mars.

 

By Kate Turton

Today's Top News

 

Palestinians flee north Gaza. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

ISRAEL AND HAMAS AT WAR

  • Israeli forces reached the gates of Gaza City's main hospital, the primary target in their battle to seize control of the northern half of the Gaza Strip, where medics said patients including newborn babies were dying for lack of fuel.
  • Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel had offered fuel to Gaza's Al Shifa hospital, which suspended operations after running out of fuel, but that the militants had refused to receive it.
  • Israel said it was poised to impose quiet on the Lebanese front as hostilities spiked, with Hezbollah wounding civilians in a cross-border missile attack and the Israeli air force bombing sites linked to the Iranian-backed group.

IN OTHER NEWS

  • President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned Ukrainians to prepare for new waves of Russian attacks on infrastructure as winter approached and said troops were anticipating an onslaught in the eastern theatre of the war.
  • Former British leader David Cameron was named as the country's new foreign secretary, in a surprise appointment made by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as he reshuffled his top team. Who is David Cameron?
  • US President Joe Biden wants to re-establish military-to-military ties with China, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday, days before the president and the Chinese leader are set to meet. Here's what to expect from APEC in San Francisco.
  • US House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson faces his first big legislative battle this week as his tries to marshal his fractious Republican majority into supporting an unconventional plan to avert a partial government shutdown beginning on Saturday. 
  • Under a security guarantee to the remote atoll nation of Tuvalu, which is threatened by rising sea levels, Australia will offer permanent residency to 280 Tuvalu citizens each year. Climate change has thrust the tiny nation into the spotlight. Kirsty Needham tells the daily Reuters World News podcast why their new migration pact with Australia marks a win for both.
 

Business & Markets

 
  • The return of North American flights to Asia-Pacific is accelerating heading in to 2024, as carriers bet on the region as the next source of high-margin revenue at a time of soaring costs.
  • Middle East carriers look set to order tens of billions of dollars of long-haul jets at the opening of the Dubai Airshow, as Emirates renews confidence in the delayed Boeing 777X while facing new competition from rivals such as Turkish Airlines.
  • Novo Nordisk shares rose 3% on Monday as the market reacted to data the drugmaker presented over the weekend at a major medical meeting in the US.
  • Eramet will go ahead with plans to add more capacity in Argentina for the battery mineral lithium and aims to double nickel mine output in Indonesia, in an investment push it sees withstanding a faltering global economy.
  • Chinese chipmaker Yangtze Memory Technologies Co has filed a lawsuit against US rival Micron Technology alleging infringement of eight of its patents.
  • The cyber hack of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China's US broker-dealer was so extensive, even the corporate email stopped working and forced employees to switch to Google mail. We look inside Wall Street's scramble after the ICBC hack.
 

At SpaceX, worker injuries soar in Elon Musk’s rush to Mars

 

SpaceX executive Elon Musk can be cavalier about safety on his visits to company facilities. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

Reuters documented at least 600 previously unreported workplace injuries at Elon Musk’s rocket company: crushed limbs, amputations, electrocutions, head and eye wounds and one death. SpaceX employees say they’re paying the price for the billionaire’s push to colonize space at breakneck speed.

 

Current and former employees said SpaceX’s high injury rates reflect a chaotic workplace where often under-trained and overtired staff routinely skipped basic safety procedures as they raced to meet Musk’s aggressive deadlines for space missions.

  • Reuters documented injuries of SpaceX workers since 2014.
 

And Finally

 

Men row a boat on a smoggy morning in Mumbai, India, November 13, 2023. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas

Two Indian cities joined New Delhi to be among the world's worst 10 for pollution on Monday morning, with smoke heavy in the air a day after revelers let loose with firecrackers for Diwali - the annual Hindu festival of light.

 

The capital New Delhi took, as it often does, the top spot. It had an air quality index figure of 420, putting it the 'hazardous' category, according to Swiss group IQAir.

  • Read more: Three Indian cities among world's 10 most polluted after Diwali
 

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